Human nature

Quote

Character

Chapter

“Wildness in my eyes... heartless laughter”

Victor

Volume One, Chapter V

“I leave a sad and bitter world”

Justine

Volume One, Chapter VIII

“Men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other’s blood”

Elizabeth

Volume Two, Chapter I

“To forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows”

Victor

Volume Two, Chapter I

“All men hate the wretched”

The Creature

Volume Two, Chapter II

“Shelter...from the barbarity of man”

The Creature

Volume Two, Chapter III

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?”

The Creature

Volume Two, Chapter V

“The strange system of human society was explained to me...of immense wealth and squalid poverty; of rank, descent and noble blood”

The Creature

Volume Two, Chapter V

“I was not even of the same nature as man”

The Creature

Volume Two, Chapter V

“Fatal prejudice clouds their eyes...they behold a detestable monster”

The Creature

Volume Two, Chapter VII

“The human senses are an insurmountable barrier to our union”

The Creature

Volume Two, Chapter IX

“I almost felt as if I had mangled the living flesh of a human being”

Victor

Volume Three, Chapter III

“An act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness”

Victor

Volume Three, Chapter III

“Oh! Be men or be more than men&rdq